List of folk songs by Roud number explained

This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers. This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles about the songs, which may use a very different song title.

The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the Child Ballads), but others have high ones.

Some of the songs were also included in the collection Jacobite Reliques by Scottish poet and novelist James Hogg.

The Index

See main article: article and Roud Folk Song Index. The index is a database of nearly 200,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud, a former librarian in the London Borough of Croydon. The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database as at October 2012 (which total includes all of the songs in the Broadside database that have 'traditional' origins).[1]

The purpose of the index is to give each song a unique identifying number. The numbers were assigned on a more or less arbitrary basis, and are not intended to carry any significance in themselves. However, because of the practicalities of compiling the index (building on previously published sources) it is true as a general rule that older and better-known songs tend to occupy low numbers, while songs which are obscure have higher numbers. Closely related songs are grouped under the same Roud number. If a trusted authority gives the name of a song but not the words it is assigned Roud number 000.

List

1 to 100

  1. "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy" (Child 200)
  2. "The Unfortunate Rake, "St. James Infirmary" (Laws Q26)
  3. "The Sprig of Thyme", "The Seeds of Love", "Garners Gay"
  4. "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" (Child 73)
  5. "The Three Ravens" (Child 26)
  6. "Lamkin" (Child 93)
  7. "The Female Highwayman", "Sovay" (Laws N21)
  8. "The Twa Sisters" (Child 10)
  9. "The Cruel Mother" (Child 20)
  10. "Lord Randal" (Child 12)
  11. "The Baffled Knight" (Child 112)
  12. "The Elfin Knight" (Child 2) (also "Scarborough Fair")
  13. "The Dowie Dens o Yarrow" (Child 214)
  14. "The Daemon Lover" (Child 243)
  15. "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter" (Laws P36A/B)
  16. "Frog Went A-Courting"
  17. "The Three Butchers" (Laws L4)
  18. "The Bramble Briar" (Laws M32)
  19. "Honest Labourer"
  20. "The Fause Knight Upon the Road" (Child 3)
  21. "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" (Child 4)
  22. "Gil Brenton" (Child 5)
  23. "Earl Brand" (Child 7)
  24. "Erlinton" (Child 8)
  25. "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (Child 9)
  26. "The Cruel Brother" (Child 11)
  27. "Babylon", "The Bonnie Banks o Fordie" (Child 14)
  28. "Hind Horn" (Child 17)
  29. "Sir Lionel" (Child 18)
  30. "Willie's Lyke-Wake" (Child 25)
  31. "A-Growing", "He's Young But He's Daily A-Growing" (Laws O35)
  32. "Kempy Kay" (Child 33)
  33. "Hind Etin" (Child 41)
  34. "The Broomfield Hill" (Child 43)
  35. "Tam Lin" (Child 39)
  36. "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" (Child 46)
  37. "Proud Lady Margaret" (Child 47)
  38. "The Twa Brothers" (Child 49)
  39. "The King's Dochter Lady Jean" (Child 52)
  40. "Young Beichan" (Child 53)
  41. "Sir Patrick Spens" (Child 58)
  42. "Fair Annie" (Child 62)
  43. "Child Waters" (Child 63)
  44. "Fair Janet" (Child 64)
  45. "Lady Maisry", "Bonnie Susie Cleland" (Child 65)
  46. "Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet" (Child 66)
  47. "Young Hunting" (Child 68)
  48. "Lord Lovel" (Child 75)
  49. "The Lass of Roch Royal" (Child 76)
  50. "Sweet William's Ghost" (Child 77)
  51. "The Unquiet Grave" (Child 78)
  52. "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" (Child 81)
  53. "Child Maurice" (Child 83)
  54. "Bonny Barbara Allan" (Child 84)
  55. "Prince Robert" (Child 87)
  56. "Young Johnstone" (Child 88)
  57. "Fause Foodrage" (Child 89)
  58. "Jellon Grame" (Child 90)
  59. "Fair Mary of Wallington" (Child 91)
  60. "Brisk Young Sailor (Courted Me)", "The Alehouse", "Died For Love", etc. (Laws P25)
  61. "The Gay Goshawk" (Child 96)
  62. "Brown Robyn" (Child 97)
  63. "Johnie Scot" (Child 99)
  64. "Willie o Winsbury" (Child 100)
  65. "Willie o Douglas Dale" (Child 101)
  66. "Tom Potts" (Child 109)
  67. "The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter" (Child 110)
  68. "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
  69. "Johnie Cock" (Child 114)
  70. "A Gest of Robyn Hode" (Child 117)
  71. "Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires" (Child 140)
  72. "Robin Hood and Queen Katherine" (Child 145)
  73. "Sir Hugh" (Child 155)
  74. "Queen Eleanor's Confession" (Child 156)
  75. "Gude Wallace" (Child 157)
  76. "Johnie Armstrong" (Child 169)
  77. "The Death of Queen Jane" (Child 170)
  78. "Six Dukes Went a-Fishing"
  79. "Mary Hamilton" (Child 173)
  80. "Captain Car", "Edom o Gordon" (Child 178)
  81. "The Laird o Logie" (Child 182)
  82. "Jock o the Side" (Child 187)
  83. "Archie o Cawfield" (Child 188)
  84. "Hughie Grame" (Child 191)
  85. "The Lochmaben Harper", "The Blind Harper" (Child 192)
  86. No record
  87. "Jamie Douglas"; "Waly Waly", "The Water Is Wide", "When Cockleshells Turn Silver Bells" (Child 204)
  88. "Lord Delaware" (Child 207)
  89. "Lord Derwentwater" (Child 208)
  90. "Geordie" (Child 209)
  91. "The Mother's Malison", "Clyde's Water" (Child 216)
  92. "Broom of the Cowdenknowes" (Child 217)
  93. "Katharine Jaffray" (Child 221)
  94. "Lizie Lindsay" (Child 226)
  95. "Glasgow Peggy" (Child 228)
  96. "The Earl of Errol" (Child 231)
  97. "Richie Story" (Child 232)
  98. "Andrew Lammie" (Child 233)
  99. "The Earl of Aboyne" (Child 235)
  100. "Bonny Baby Livingston" (Child 222)

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20,001 and above

"V" prefix

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. library.efdss.org: Search the Roud Folksong Index (English Folk Dance and Song Society)
  2. Web site: The Cunning Cobbler (Roud 174). Zierke, Reinhard. Mainlynorfolk.info. 24 December 2019. 4 May 2020.
  3. Web site: The cunning cobbler – Mike McCann / Rathole Sheikh. McCann, Elisabeth. 7 September 2008. 5 July 2018. YouTube.
  4. Also known as "Hanged I Shall Be", "The Oxford Tragedy", "The Oxford/Wexford Girl", "Ekefield/Ickfield/Wexford Town". "The Butcher Boy" and "The Prentice Boy" Web site: Hanged I Shall Be / The Oxford Tragedy / The Oxford/Wexford Girl / Ekefield/Ickfield/Wexford Town / The Butcher Boy / The Prentice Boy . Reinhard Zierke. Mainlynorfolk.info . 6 October 2013 . 13 December 2013.
  5. Web site: Betsy Watson (Roud Folksong Index S137595). Vml.org. 5 July 2018.
  6. Web site: Felton Lonnin / The Kye Have Come Hame . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 21 November 2015 . 20 March 2016 . Zierke, Reinhard.
  7. Web site: Here's the Tender Coming . Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music . 21 November 2015 . 30 January 2016 . Zierke, Reinhard.
  8. Web site: Roud 3504 . Vaughan Williams Memorial Library . 1 May 2018.
  9. Web site: Clare County Library: Songs of Clare – the Blarney Stone sung by Tom Lenihan.
  10. Web site: Young Morgan (Roud 5369) .